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Are You Measuring The Right Things?

In The Effective Executive, Peter Drucker talks about leadership as doing the right things and management is doing things right. In a lot of my client work, I spend a great deal of time dealing with making sure that my clients are measuring the right things. It is often easy to create lists and […]

January 19, 2018
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A lot of people in and around tickets will be heading to Baltimore next week for the annual INTIX conference. I’ll be one of them. So if you are around, check me out. I’d love to meet you. That said, looking at the program, a couple of themes are on everyone’s minds this year and […]

October 1, 2017
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I’ve been on a bit of a reading binge lately. What I have been reading is a lot of the classic business texts that laid the foundation for much of what we consider best practices now. One of my favorites is Managing For Results by Peter Drucker because it is the first book on […]

The Art of Strategic Management

I read this somewhere before as an example of the evolution necessary in today’s globalized, connected business environment. The fact is that probably the most successful managers and strategists have been practicing this type of art for a long time. What is interesting about the idea is that we still largely operate in a world […]

Big Data?! Useful or Useless?

There is a lot of buzz about Big Data and having more information can be incredibly useful…until the point that it isn’t. The thing about data or Big Data is that you are still going to need a strong analysis of the information, a point of view, or some sort of human interaction to make […]

Setting priorities

Since we are in an on-demand, all the time sort of world, I am often asked about time management. In fact, I have been putting together a program on time management for business services professionals that I will be delivering for Barbri to law firms around the country…which is what made this poignant to me. […]

Manage Email?

I’m often asked by people I am training or preparing to train: “Do you have any tips for how I can manage my email better.” And, I do. Now creating a system that is going to change the way that we email each other is likely outside of my blog post or my desire… But […]